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[Tony_Balony]

Explain to me again why you can't just mail your passport and visa paperwork to an agent in Japan, have that agent drop that package off and mail it back.

Aside from the risk of having the agent steal the passport, why doesn't everything else work?

[jellobean]

You need to enter the country using your visa to activate it.... Otherwise you are still a tourist.... Korea doesn't do in-country change of status (accept apparently now in Jeju for public schools)...

[Tony_Balony]

Ty for the response.

Once having the visa, you could leave the country and then enter thus activating the visa provided the entry date was after or equal to the E2 begin date.

You could find a low price way to go through customs/immigration.

[tob55]

I was trying to give this some thought since TonyBalony brought this up and it makes sense from the standpoint of economics...If you reason or consider that the Korean consulates on other countries probably have small operating budgets, they would then use the money coming in from foreigners getting their various visa stamps as a means of generating revenue that doesn't actually have to force the Goverment to take money out of the country...

When you think about it, the revenue from people obtaining their visa stamps through foreign consulates is big business. If a person completes a contract they could certainly come up with a way to reissue an extension in a less costly fashion, but then the airline industry would not get the dollars for people traveling out of the country. Add to the list all of the associated industries connected to travel and obtaining the visa stamp, and you can quickly see who would suffer. In the end it would have a major impact on the whole system which Korea relies heavily upon to generate revenue...

This is just my theory, but from a dollars and cents point of view it makes great sense for the government to send people out of the country...

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[Tony_Balony]